goo dot gl šŸ˜’

goo dot gl URL redirect QR code
goo dot gl URL redirect QR code
a few years ago, i got a QR code from google, attached to their URL-forwarder at goo dot gl, that resolved to ą¤µą„ƒą¤¤ą„ą¤¤ą¤æą¤ƒ from ā€œUnknown Albumā€, which i promptly had made into a sticker, which i have been sticking to various different things, and handing to strangers i meet on the street, for a few years now.

i INTENDED to use goo dot glā€™s analytics to determine how many people had hit the link, and where they were located. apparently that was only a SMALL FRACTION of the information i could receive from the QR code.

what i didnā€™t know is that they shut down their URL-forwarder at goo dot gl in 2018 and i only JUST found out about it.

fortunately the QR code, and the URL-forwarder continue to work, butā€¦

goddam it, gewgelā€¦ when you stop using something important, you should make it somewhat more obvious. šŸ˜’

now, admittedly, i INTENDED to use the goo dot gl analytics, but i only logged in to see what was happening for the first time, today, so i really was NOT paying attention, but stillā€¦ you would think that a company as big as the big G could be a little more public about things like this.